bpv_1153731 - MACRINUS Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,99 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait de Macrin, bien venu à la frappe. Revers agréable. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Macrin à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT K M OPELLI SEUH - MAKREINOS(Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Oppelios Seuhros Makreinos°
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Nemesis drapée debout à gauche, le pied droit posé sur un roue, tenant une balance de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : UP STATI LONGIN-OU NIKOPOLITWN P//[ROS ISTRW], (Upatewn statiou longinou Nikopolitwn Pros Istron)
Reverse translation : (Magistrat Statius Longinus Nicopolis près d’Istros).
Historical background
MACRINUS
(11/04/217-8/06/218)
Macrin was born in 164 in Cherchell in Mauretania. He is not a senator, but a knight, of indigenous (Moorish) origin. Procurator of the "res privata" (private fund of the Emperor) of Caracalla, he then became prefect of the Praetorium from 212. After the assassination of Caracalla on April 8, 217, he was acclaimed emperor on April 11. He will never come to Rome and remains in Antioch. He deifies Caracalla, but exiles Julia Domna, who lets herself die. He takes the title of Severus to rally the supporters of the Severian family to him and gives the prænomen of Antoninus to his son, Diadumenian, promoted to Caesar. Trying to conciliate everyone, he runs into the army, which misses Caracalla. Soldiers quartered in Emesa proclaimed Elagabalus on May 16, 218. Defeated in June, Macrinus fled. Hearing of the death of Diaduménien, he tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from his chariot and is finished off by his own soldiers..
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